2) What’s more— @AOC actually personally came to Texas and helped on the front lines, whenever she didn’t have to (she’s not even elected by Texas).
3) And let’s remember the moral rot at the heart of all is is that Texas leader consciously neglected to winterize and purposefully deregulated and avoided federal regulations.
I think Texas needs new leaders... First Ted Cruz and now...
Texas’s Attorney General Ken Paxton and wife TX Senator Angela Paxton both fled to Utah during #TexasBlackout to avoid the freezing cold and water outage while their voters suffered. houstonchronicle.com/politics/texas…
2) Texas’s elected leaders directly control @ERCOT_ISO — and the deregulation and lack of safety investments that led to Texas’s electricity ⚡️ crisis and humanitarian crisis.
📍OUTBREAK OF #B117 AT SEVEN SCHOOLS—sudden outbreak of #COVID19 cases at a British Columbia 🇨🇦—all elementary and middle schools. Genetic sequencing shows #b117 in early cases linked to outbreak. Classes quarantined. All the schools still remain open. 🧵 cbc.ca/news/canada/br…
2) British Columbia 🇨🇦 teachers are now incredibly worried by the latest sudden 7 school outbreaks, and demanding decisive actions.
COVID hidden in lung 🫁 transplant—transplant recipient tragically dies after receiving donor lungs, unbeknownst infected with #COVID19. The surgeon also contracted same #SARSCoV2—both infected from the dead donor’s lung, verified from genetic sequencing.🧵nbcnews.com/health/health-…
2) “Doctors say a woman in Michigan contracted Covid-19 and died last fall two months after receiving a tainted double-lung transplant from a donor who turned out to harbor the virus that causes the disease — despite showing no signs of illness and initially testing negative.”
3) “Officials at the University of Michigan Medical School suggested it may be the first proven case of #COVID19 in U.S. in which virus was transmitted via an organ transplant. A surgeon who handled the donor lungs was also infected with the virus & fell ill but later recovered.”
AIR DISINFECTION—To reduce airborne #SARSCoV2 risk, new study finds HEPA cleaners, with total air exchange rate of 5.7 ACH/hour, after 2 hours in closed room with a highly infective person—the inhaled dose is 6x reduced!
2) In times when classes were conducted with windows and door closed, the aerosol concentration was reduced by more than 90% within less than 30 minutes when running the purifiers (air exchange rate 5.5 /hour)—and decreased by more than 95% within 37 minutes.
3) A **halving of the particle concentration was reached in 10.0, 7.0 or 5.4 minutes** (green, black and red lines, respectively), depending on the total flow of the purifiers.
The blue line shows a typical slow decrease when no purifiers were used.
~90% SUCCESS AGAINST TRANSMISSION—the newest Israel 🇮🇱 study shows the Pfizer/BioNTech vaccine is 89.4% against all lab confirmed infections—which show the vaccine may also prevent asymptomatic carriers from spreading the virus that causes #COVID19. 👏 bloomberg.com/news/articles/…
2) In Israel, nearly half the population has at least 1 shot of vaccine. And 4 out of 5 infections during the study period in Israel were the #B117 variant from the UK. So it’s pretty good for B117 too.
3) The other recent Israel study says the Pfizer / BioNTech vaccine is 85% effective after 1st done and 75% for asymptomatic transmission — again just 1 dose after initial 2 week immunity building period.